Fascism is once again rearing its ugly head in Europeby Michael Smith (Veshengro)

Fascism
is once again rearing its ugly head in Europe and not one of the
mainstream political parties appears to be prepared and willing to do
anything about and against it.

Is it not high
time to outlaw groupings and parties such as the NPD and BVU in Germany,
the BNP and others in the UK, the Fronte National in France, and others
of their ilk elsewhere in Europe? I think so.

Presently
those fascists parties and their thugs rant and rave against foreigners
and against Gypsies, regardless as to whether those are Romani from
their own country or from abroad, and therefore none of the mainstream
parties in those countries and in the EU seem to wish to do anything
about them. Gypsies and foreigners have always been a convenient
scapegoat in a crisis and are again.

We see a
repeat of the 1930s when people did not speak and did not care that they
came for the communists and socialists, the Gypsies, the so-called
Asocials and then the Jews.

Martin Niemoeller
was right that if we do not speak out when they come for the others
there will be no one left to speak out when they finally come for the
rest who wish to live free and think free.

While
anti-fascists are persecuted, once again, when they demonstrate against
marches and other activities by the brown menace, under whichever name,
the fascists are allowed to continue to operate and, as we have seen in
Germany only in 2011, the police and the security services actively
work hand-in-glove with Neonazis.

After the
“fall” of the Wall the German authorities banned and outlawed the Freie
Deutsche Jugend (FDJ) (Free German Youth) and the wearing even of blue
shirts remotely resembling the FDJ ones whether with or without the FDJ
badge and also the Young Pioneers the Nazis were and are allowed to
continue and even, instead of being banned and prescribed, allowed to
form more and more organizations.

The brown
menace is permitted to freely walk abroad and continue with its terror
against foreigners, Gypsies, and all those that dare to stand against
them, while communists and anti-fascists are being controlled and often
prescribed, have their protest marches and demonstrations banned.

Although
he meant it differently Heinrich Heine's sigh of “Dent ich an
Deutschland in der Nacht so bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht” (If I think
of Germany at night I am robbed of my sleep) it is rather fitting here
and makes sense though.

But it is not just
Germany where the brown menace is rising. It seems to be the case almost
everywhere in the European Union and also outside of it in Europe and
even Russia.

In Greece the brown menace has
become active also now with the crisis of the Euro and of government in
that country and their “militias” are roaming the streets challenging
anyone that appears a foreigner to show them his or her ID card and if
not Greek and especially if an immigrant they beat the people up.

We
don't even want to talk about Hungary where uniformed fascist groups
are attacking Gypsy settlements and murdering people, nor about Italy
where recently soccer fans in a stadium called for a pogrom against
Romani people, nor about the attacks against Sinti and Roma people in
the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to name but a few countries.

Even
in Switzerland right-wing groups, and some not even that openly
fascist, are calling for the expulsion of all Gypsies and foreigners.

While,
with the exception of Switzerland and Russia all those countries where
we are seeing the problems rising are countries of the EU neither their
respective governments nor the EU bodies are doing anything, especially
not as far as the Gypsy People are concerned.

No
surprise there really considering that, to all intents and purposes, EU
representatives are contemplating the wholesale removal of all Gypsies
on EU soil, by means to deportation to resettlement, to the steppes of
Russia. Discussions with the Russian authorities have, apparently, taken
place already also and it would appear that they are working with the
EU on this.

Sounds familiar, does it? It is! We have been here before some 70 years ago and once again the voices are silent.